I Didn't See The Time Go By

Now as the wheel of life turns faster
 Now as the seasons seem to fly
 I see so many things at last
 But didn't see the time go by
 I've known delight, I've known disaster
 The caviar, the humble pie
 From the absurd to the sublime
 I didn't see the time go by
 I didn't see the years roll on
 I didn't know the road would bend
 Refused to see when youth was gone
 Pretending it might never end
 Now there is price to pay for every day I threw away
 It seems I've wasted half a lifetime
 Within the blinking of an eye
 I didn't hear the midnight chime
 I didn't see the time go by
 I didn't see the time go by
 In stolen nights and brief romances
 I kissed the girls and made them cry
 Where there were balconies to climb
 I didn't see the time go by
 I was the guy with all the answers
 The halfway truths, the little lies
 So sure, so certain in my prime
 I didn't see the time go by
 I hit the heights, I beat the dirt
 I left some wreckage in my wake
 I didn't see the lies could hurt
 I didn't know how hearts can break
 And now they come to haunt my mind
 The lives I touched and left behind
 I've sung a hundred songs of longing
 Of sweet regret and hope run dry
 I've searched for melody and rhyme
 But never saw how time can fly
 Never saw the darkening sky
 Never saw the darkening sky
 I was a minstrel of my time
 Who did not see the time go by